where do you get info on who to vote for?

[Kaido]

yup, its almost that time. this will be the first time I've ever voted. I rarely watch tv tho, so I haven't been keeping up with the candidate stuff. where should I go to read up on the candidates?

 

[minendo]

You don't. TV is the only means to acquire such information.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I'll save you the trouble of all that research and reading. Just vote for Bush.

 

[hellfreeze]

i say you flip a coin

 

[Mayfriday0529]

I actually would like to know also.

besides the president election there will lots of other candidates for state and local to pick and i have no clue about them so usually i will just pick everyone in the same party.

 

[torpid]

It's usually a no brainer for president for me. By that I mean both candidates have no brains so I end up voting for the one with more hair. For the other stuff, if I'm feeling adventurous, I usually first go to local newspaper sites, then I go to those sites that break things down into issues and stats. In all cases I start with google.

 

[ggnl]

You don't need any information! If you're rich you vote Republican, if you're poor or a minority you vote Democrat.

 

[acemcmac]

Wall street journal and buisness week

The tv outlets just tell you WHAT to think, WSJ and other high end publications have reader bases smart enough to know better, so they give it to you a lot straighter

 

[DingDingDao]

Originally posted by: ggnl
You don't need any information! If you're rich you vote Republican, if you're poor or a minority you vote Democrat.

lol. Just to play Devil's advocate (or Bush's advocate, depending on how you look at it), plenty of poor farmers in the midwest vote Republican, and last I checked Colin Powell and his douchebag son Michael were minorities and Republican.

 

[nageov3t]

NYTimes for national elections, and local newspapers for local elections.

 

[TheAudit]

For local elections I always turn to the coverage in the newspapers.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: TheAudit
For local elections I always turn to the coverage in the newspapers.

God help us all...:roll:

 

[jessicak]

Hardball w/Chris Matthews has some good stuff on every Friday night at like 8 or 9...but it is a Friday night...

 

[Shelly21]

Get your news like all kids, from The Daily Show.

 

[Shelly21]

Originally posted by: jessicak
Hardball w/Chris Matthews has some good stuff on every Friday night at like 8 or 9...but it is a Friday night...

Wow, I remember Zell Miller wanted to challenge Chris Matthews to a duel.

 

[DrPizza]

Just do what the majority of the population does, use these criteria:

best hair
easiest name to spell and pronounce
nicest signs and bumper stickers
most signs and bumper stickers - a sign that more people like so and so
vote for who you heard is in the lead, so you can rejoice in having picked the winner (like a horserace)
first name on the ballot
straight party-line (vote for everyone in a certain party)

If anyone doubts that the above is true, I'll concede that it's not true for some offices, particularly president. You can't avoid information on who's running for president.

But, the other 20 offices you're voting for... you have to actively look for information to distinguish between/among the candidates.

 

[Hankerton]

Waiting for Nik to bust in and go on a pro-Bush rant in 5.......4......3.........

 

[JDub02]

What are your core beliefs for this country?

Republicans generally believe in low taxes, liberty and freedom, and moral family values

Socialists .. er Democrats generally believe in high taxes, government control, redistribution of wealth, and moral relativism (where you make up your own morality).

 

[JDub02]

Originally posted by: ggnl
You don't need any information! If you're rich you vote Republican, if you're poor or a minority you vote Democrat.

No, if you desire to be rich (and are willing to work for it) vote Republican.

If you're poor and want the rich guy in the next neighborhood to be poor as well because it's not fair that he's rich and you're not, vote Democrat. They'll make sure they take all his money and make him as poor as you.

 

[JDub02]

The intraweb is a great place for info, news, analysis, etc.

 

[Shelly21]

Originally posted by: Hankerton
Waiting for Nik to bust in and go on a pro-Bush rant in 5.......4......3.........

Nik is not one of those other "Bush fanatics who's a dumbass".

 

[Corsairpro]

blindly vote R or D and just know that whomever you voted for is going to fsck everything up

 

[maddogchen]

For beginners try www.presidentmatch.com where it asks you questions on your positions and then shows you whos the best canidate for you. Then it breaks down the canidates and what positions they are for.

Note it doesn't go into much detail and its only for beginners. Also its brought to you by AOL: internet for beginners/dummies hahaha

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: JDub02

Originally posted by: ggnl
You don't need any information! If you're rich you vote Republican, if you're poor or a minority you vote Democrat.

No, if you desire to be rich (and are willing to work for it) vote Republican.

If you're poor and want the rich guy in the next neighborhood to be poor as well because it's not fair that he's rich and you're not, vote Democrat. They'll make sure they take all his money and make him as poor as you.

Any chance you could save this crap for P&N? Prior to Bush, we had a Democrat as president for 2 terms, and last I checked, there's still plenty of rich people in the US.

 

[xSauronx]

i kinda wanna vote kerry; to get rid of bush
i kinda wanna vote bush; because kerry isnt going to be much better, if any
i kinda wanna vote for someone else; but i dont know who; and they probably wouldnt be much better than the two i listed already
i kinda wanna not vote; but wars were fought and people died so i could so im not going to waste the opportunity; even though i cant find a candidate i even semi-like

bah